Evaluators as educators: Articulating program theory and building evaluation capacity

New Directions for Evaluation

Volumn 2005, Issue 108, 2005, Pages 57-71

  Monroe, Martha C ^a   Lynette Fleming, M ^b   Bowman, Ruth A ^c   Zimmer, Jeanne F ^c   Marcinkowski, Tom ^d   Washburn, Julia ^e   Mitchell, Nora J ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^f National Park Service Conservation Study Institute   (United States)

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EID: 33845903527     PISSN: 10976736     EISSN: 1534875X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ev.171     Document Type: Article

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